The State, Development and Identity in Multi-Ethnic Societies (eBook, ePUB)

Ethnicity, Equity and the Nation
Redaktion: Tarling, Nicholas; Gomez, Edmund Terence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines ethnic communities, identity, economy, society and state, and the links between them, in a range of countries across Asia, challenging the widely held belief that an authoritarian political system is necessary to ensure communal co-existence in developing countries where ethnic minorities have a considerable economic presence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134056804
• Artikelnr.: 38264491

Autorenporträt

Edmund Terence Gomez is Professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics & Administration, University of Malaya. He has also held appointments at the University of Leeds (UK) and Murdoch University (Australia) and served as Visiting Professor at Kobe University, Japan. Between 2005 and 2008, he served as Research Coordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), in Geneva, Switzerland.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Edmund Terence Gomez 1. Ethnicity Nicholas Tarling 2.
Inter-Ethnic Relations, Identity and Business: The Chinese in Britain and
Malaysia Edmund Terence Gomez 3. Beyond Reductionism: State, Ethnicity and
Public Policy in Plural Societies Yeoh Kok Kheng 4. Ethnic Identity
Formation: The Case of Second-Generation Chinese and Vietnamese in the
United States Rebecca Kim 5. A World on Fire? Some Notes on Burma Alfred
Oehlers 6. Hidden in Plain View: Singapore's Race and Ethnicity Policies
Nicole Tarulevicz 7. The State and Public Policies, Civil Society and
Identity Formation in Multi-Ethnic Societies: The Case of the Chinese in
the Philippines Teresita Ang-See 8. The Politics of Redefining Ethnic
Identity in Indonesia: Smothering the Fires in Lombok with Democracy Kendra
Clegg 9. Development of China's Ethnic Minority Areas: The State and the
Market Xin Chen 10. Public Policies and Ethnic Relations in Sri Lanka S.T.
Hettige 11. A Nation Within? Maori People and Autonomy in New Zealand,
1840-2004 Danny Keenan